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Test 11 · ★★ · Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grap…

A grower in Scotland wants new strawberry plants for next spring fast. Which way works quicker, seeds or runners?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: grower, way · What happens: want, work · To what, where: new strawberry plants, seeds

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 346 «Fruit: how apples, bananas, oranges, strawberries and grapes grow» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: A grower in Scotland wants new strawberry plants for next spring fast.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 grower	det
2	grower	grower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wants	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Scotland	case
4	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 grower	nmod
5	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
7	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plants	compound
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wants	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 spring	case
10	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spring	amod
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plants	nmod
12	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wants	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a grower in Scotland	new strawberry plants			for next spring	fast property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plant=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Which way works quicker, seeds or runners?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 works	nsubj
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quicker	quick	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 works	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 seeds	punct
6	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 works	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 runners	cc
8	runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seeds	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 works	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	which way	seeds or runners				quick property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Planting a whole strawberry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Planting	plant	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 strawberry	det
3	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strawberry	amod
4	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Planting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plant	gerund		a whole strawberry					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strawberry=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Runners, because they already make little plants that root

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Runners	runner	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 make	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plants	amod
8	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 root	det
10	root	root	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plants	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Runners	little plants					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plant=Product

Option 3

Neither, strawberries never make new plants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 make	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	strawberries	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 make	advmod
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plants	amod
7	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present	strawberries	new plants				neither property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plant=Product

Option 4

Seeds, because each strawberry has 200

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 has	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 has	mark
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 strawberry	det
5	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	200	200	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Seeds	200					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 200=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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